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  • By: Edward de Bono
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Summary

Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.

Your success depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as an international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats":

  • WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures
  • RED HAT: the emotional view
  • BLACK HAT: careful and cautious
  • YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive
  • GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas
  • BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat

Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you can use to create clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. This audio edition of his timeless book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life.

This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser, an Audible listener favorite. Published with permission from Edward de Bono Ltd. Information on training in the Six Thinking Hats is available at www.deBono.com.

©1985 Edward de Bono Ltd. (P)2021 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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this should be taught in schools
collaboration the way forward
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The clarity of each hat and its purposes really stood out in this book.

Those who are forward thinking enough to introduce this theory to those they spend a lot of time with, will yield amazing, consistent results 🙂

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Amazing book

If you want to avoid endless discussions at meetings, to avoid too much negativity and pessimism when ideas are put forward or to facilitate a method for inventing solutions, this book provides some really great techniques. Even if you decide not yo use the six hats method you’ll still benefit from the ideas put forward.

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